Fender for cars or locomotives



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES B. kRAUsE AND ROBERT H. onosnv, OF WILLIAMSPORT,

- PENNSYLVANIA.

FENDER FOR CARS ORlLOCOMOTlVES.

SPECIFICATION forming par-tof Letters Patent No. 521,503, dated June 19,1894.

Application filed January 5,1894- Serlal No. 495,853. (No model.)

T at whom it may concern.- Be it known that we, JAMES B. KRAUsE andROBERT H. CROSBY, of Williamsport, in the county of Lycoming and Stateof Pennsylvasible to the rails of the track under all con ditions,irrespective of the bobbing up and down of the car body.

A further object'is to providea fender which can be lowered at a momentsnotice from its normal position, to a point in contact with or inproximity to the rails, and a still further object is to provide afender of such construction that the forward end may be readily detachedat any time from the restof the fender.

With these ends in view our invention consists in certain novel featuresof construction and combinations of parts which will be hereinafterdescribed and pointed out in the claims. 7

p In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is a view in perspective of animproved fender.

Fig. 2 is a sectional view.

A and B represent a'pair of truss rods. The rod A is secured at itsinner end to the truck of the car or locomotive and extends forward fromthis point to the end of the car. The truss rod B also extends forwardfrom the truck and'terminates preferably at the outer end of the carjust as the other one does. Vertical rods 1, 1, are secured to thesetruss rods and these together with the truss-rods constitute the fenderand form a perfect lattice work around the end of the car. The verticalrods reach to or nearly to the car body as shown in Fig. 1, except atthe step, at which point they reach nearly to the step so that in shorta fence or lattice work is formed from the truck forward around thespace at the entire end of the wheels and beas shown, preferably bymeans of bolts 0 which have removable thumb nuts'O thereon. This pilotis substantially similar in all essential particulars, to the ordinarylocomotive cow catcher and it is made removable so as to form noobstruction to the coupling of the car to another one. The upperend ofthe cow-catcher has avertical sliding connection with the end of the carthrough the vertical rods 3, 3. These rods are secured at their lowerends to the end of the car and pass loosely through elongated holes 4,4, in the cow-catcher made to receive them. Small spiral springs 5 5,are placed on these rods above and below the cow-catcher and thumb nutsare turned on the upper ends of the rods. These thumb nuts are removablewhen it is desired that the cow-catcher should be removed and they maybe screwed up or down as occasion may require so as to give the car bodymore or less room to vibrate.

' From the cross-bar D,.a rod 7 extends upward through the floor of thecar where it is provided at its upper end with atread 8 upon which themotorman places his foot when it is desired, in case of an emergency tolower the cow-catcher or pilot from its normal position the truss-rods Aand B being of sufficient length from the point of attachment to thefree end to admit of this. This rod 7 is provided with ratchet teeth,and a spring 9 forces this rod forward so that the teeth thereon arenormally held in engagement with the edge of the plate 10 which acts asa rigid pawl, the spring yielding sufficiently to permit the teeth toslide on the pawl. A rock shaft 12 has an eccentric 13 thereon adaptedto force the rod 7 backward out of engagement with the pawl whereby toallow it to rise and resume its normal position due to the spring actionof truss-rods A and B which results from the length from their point ofsupport to their free ends. This shaft 12 is provided with a lever 14with a tread 15 on the outer end and aspring 16 normally holds thespring elevated.

In this fender we have devised an improvement which will insure safetyto the public,

and thus avoid danger to pedestrians and practically do away withinterminable law suits.

The fender is light, strong and actual use has demonstrated itspracticability. Moreover it is readily attachable and detachable and canbe applied to any style of truck at;

selves to ,the exact construction herein setj forth, hut,

ters Patent, is- I l. The combination with the truckof a-car tau iallyasset forth.

2. Theco nbination with a feudercompris ingitruss rods and verticalorcross-rods rigidly secured to the truss rods whereby the several rodsare trussed and braced and the entire weight of the fender is sustainedupon the truck, of a rod extending upward into the carfrom the fenderwhere it may be depressed by the motorman to lower the fender,substantially as set forth.

.3. The combination with afender comprising truss rods, and verticalcross rods secured ,to the truss rods, and a cow catcher or pilotlocated at the outer end and forming a part of the tender, and meansconnected with the car with which the 00W catcher has yielding slidingconnection, for preventing lateral movement of the cow-catcher or pilot,substantially as set forth. 1

The mbination w t a nilo or :cow-

catcher, a tchet t othe rod e ending P- a d hercfromaain vl,anda sp igforinormal yhq ug th d aud pewl iihengeg men with cac ot e t, o a mocksha mea f ocking th i a t seud .ai amio iec ent 1 on this shaft inapositionlto .engage the .rod Having ,fully described ourinvention, whatweclai nas new, and desire to secure byLet whereby o force it awaytromthepawl whereby it is permitted to riseand resume ,itsnorfi y eleva posin,substant a yas set forth.

Intestimqny whereof we have signedithis specification in the.prcsenceiof twolsubscribing witnesses.

JAMES KRAUSE. ROBERT II. OROSBYL Witnesses:

J 0s. B. CHAMPION, W. W. CHAMPION.

